External Hardrive for both PC and MAC?

[dfusion-]

Hey guys..maybe you can help me out

i have a old sata harddrive from my PC..i bought a nice casing for it and was planning to use it as a external hardrive for my macbook pro. But it didnt recognized it..so after some searches i found out i needed to partion it to MAC journaled. And my macbook pro finally recognized it but my PC wont!

So my question is..can't you use a external hardrive for both mac and PC? or isn't that possible...

thanx in regards

 

[Hellhammer]

FAT32 is the most compatible between Mac and PC but there is file size limit of 4GB. Download NTFS-3G to read and write NTFS in OS X

 

[jpyc7]

If you are planning to just physically attach/detach between the two machines, then you just need to use a common format as Hellhammer says.

Have you considered networking the two machines instead and 'sharing' the drive from one of them over the network? Since your Mac is a laptop, you might prefer the external HD to be on the PC all the time. Of course, it means both computers have to be on and it's also slower as a network access. On the other hand, you won't have to detach the HD cable from the MacBook Pro each time. I'm just throwing this idea out there as an option.